27-04-2013, 02:42 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:How's that 'the markets can regulate themselves' working out for you?
Quote:Screwing around with world interest rates that affect billions of people in exchange for day-old sushi it's hard to imagine an image that better captures the moral insanity of the modern financial-services sector.:what: Not even holdingout for 30 pieces of silver.
I think the dead witch probably meant to say "free markets will never regulate themselves", but couldn't force the truthful word 'never' out of her gob, as it would've made her choke. Pity. Her choking would've done us all a favour 30 years ago. Too late now though, crookedness is so endemic that most people don't even bat an eye at it.
Covington & Burling, in my day anyway, were close to the US Treasury via senior guys who used to formerly be senior guys at the treasury.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14